I'm guessing someone at CDProjekt has realised that selling more copies for less money on GOG still equates to more income on average than the retail sales after everyone's taken their slice of the profits. It's tempting now but I'm still stuck weighing up whether I'd rather have physical copies of the manuals etc or a PDF artbook.

The price isn't in the data anyway, if they can sell older games for £5 it certainly costs them less than that to get the game to you.

At least at £27 it's marginally competitive and may tempt someone who is planning to get one of the GoG games included in the package. Personally I'll be going with the boxed version like you, not only is in £2 cheaper but you get some nice extras like the coin, map and manual.

If CD Projekt sold personal boxes the way Stardock does, I'd buy it. I bought a boxed Elemental a few months back for $40 WITH p&p and this for the limited edition. If I pay £24 on Amazon (P&P included), I'd get a physical copy BUT less money goes towards CD Projekt. Yet paying £26 on this site means no physical goodies and paying more which makes no economic sense.

Now the price is not fair for those who pay with Euros.

£ 26.99 = 31,3 € (today's rate at xe.com)

31,3 € == 44,99 € ?? :(

Edit: I totally forgot the $16 credit to the GOG.com store! It's fair after all. :)

Yeah, it's closer to the £25 pretty much everyone worth their salt is selling the Premium Boxed Edition. That said, I'm going to wait and see what the DRM for said boxed edition is before putting solid money behind any pre-order.

You still give your money. ;)

Another reason why I like this site. I'm not even in the UK but can totally appreciate when GoG does something of this nature. Thanks guys for doing good things like this.

I think this is great for our friends across the pond. I do have a question - With all these GOG pre-orders, is GOG going to be able to handle the traffic on release day?

AFAIK they have to deal with multiple publishers. More specifically, Atari sold their European publishing arm to Namco Bandai, and they have a... different approach to publishing. (please no always-online DRM for the retail version, please no always-online DRM for the retail version...)

QFT.

Also, wait, this is being released simultaneously by GOG and Namco, of all companies?! There is going to be a ridiculous spread of DRM types from nil to 1984, heh.

I guess we'll find out :o)

I couldn't care less about what currency I'll have to pay in, considering how much GOG ensure that no matter how much you pay on top of what the next guy does, you'll get something in return that makes up for the difference. I'm also usually one to prefer a boxed copy over a download-only one. But in this day and age, the sad truth is that the game-part of the boxed copy tends to be of much lower quality than a GOG-conforming download. Meaning that no matter what kind of DRM the boxed copy will have, it's going to be worse than the one you get here.

Heck, if I end up liking the game I might go pick up a second, boxed copy later on. But as it is, my main copy, the one I will get on the game's release, will be the GOG one, if only for the message I want to send to the whole business. The message being: "screw your anti-consumer measures, count me out; but know that I'm still willing to pay full-price for a game wherever I am treated with respect and receive a fully-working copy."

Why is would a boxed copy be of much lower quality (DRM if any aside) ?.. I prefer retail boxed copy if i can get it at a reasonable price.

GOG, I bloody love you.

I just... Damnit, GOG, you magnificent beast. This is awesome.

We still get a free game with the purchase, so actually we get more content than the boxed version.

Nice! This does make buying it through GOG a lot more attractive. I'd prefer a retail copy though. But that does somewhat depend on the DRM. Which still hasn't been confirmed.